Citizens continue to pay electricity for north, only in January did Serbs spend 4.5m euros

This was announced today by Finance, Labour and Transfers Minister Iron Murati.

Of this measure, which began in September last year, some 200 thousand families have benefited and 88m euros from import have been saved, writes Front Online.

This month, the Government of Kosovo has subsidised consumer bills, which have saved at least 5 per cent of the energy consumed monthly, compared to the same month of the preliminary year.

These consumers have benefited twice the saving percentage.

And while the government has suspended this measure, the Energy Regulatory Office from April 1st has increased the price of electricity to 15%.

Even if that wasn't enough.

Kosovo's government still continues to pay the flow spent by Serbs in the north, as well as why ZRE last year has licensed the company “Electric “, which would make electricity supply and fating in that part.

Only in January of this year in a response to the CoSTT's Front Online, losses from the electricity default in that part of the Republic of Kosovo are 4.5m euros.

The loss value of energy consumed and not paid in the northern part of Kosovo for January 2023 alone is estimated to be close to $4.5m”, says COST for Front Online.

A few days ago, the Supreme Court has rejected the Energy Regulatory Office's request against the Court of Appeals' act, concerning the fate of citizens of the Republic of Kosovo, for the spent but unpaid flow in four northern municipalities.

According to the Supreme Act, consumers who have paid for the energy spent in the north have the right to return these means.

From the Office of Energy Regulatory (ZRRE), they have announced about Front Online that they are in the process of assessing the Supreme Court's decision of Kosovo, which found that consumers could seek to compensate for the current paid for the north.

The Energy Regulatory Office is in the process of assessing this act and, in line with the legal provisions in force, will take the necessary steps”, said ZRRE spokesman Petrit Pepaj of Front Online.

Regarding the Government's current decision to cut subsidies and power in the northern part of Front Online, the chairman of the Commission for Economy, Ferat Shala and former Finance Minister Haki Shatri has spoken.

MP The PDK, once chairman of the Commission for Economics Ferat Shala, has declared to Front Online that the government is already in institutional chaos in terms of energy sector management.

According to him, the truth of corruption in the energy sector has already been spread to this government.

The Ministry of Finance has problems now, there is uncertainty about subvention, and yet the punitive factor will fall on consumers because the government for two years has raised the price of energy twice, once and now 15%, once in a combined way and now linearly, and now it's certainly interrupted by the subsidy factor because there's a lot of confusion in the way of subvention, there's a lot of uncertainty about the methodology of subvention implementation and the basis of suspicion is completely economic-corruption, and now the Government needs to be changed now with practice or practice because there's a lot of corruption in the energy sector, there's a reason for the EURCHlCHlCHlCHlCHOCHOTCHOCHOCHOCHOCHOCHOCHOCHOCHOCHOCHOCHOT:

As for the energy fee for Serbs in the north, Shala has said the payment being made in that part is becoming unfair.

The government is definitely continuing to pay for the energy spent on the north unjustly, violating any legal and ethical principles, but also human because it has signed the agreement that would now start and how many months it has been implemented but which has not started to be implemented and negotiators like Bislim's Kurt are pushing hundreds of millions of euros on the other side, he stated.

Former Finance Minister: This government is leading like getting out of the mountain.

Former Finance Minister Haki Shatri has told Front Online that Kurti Government is governing as if it were leaving the mountain.

These “have taken the country to rule as if it were a country without any law as if they came out of the mountain and decided what they wanted and what they thought. Within two years they have allowed energy expensiveness now in April, when energy consumption decreases markedly from the winter season, and this is pointless”, Shatri said, for Front Online.

As far north as the tide is concerned, Shatri has declared that while the subsidy has been cut off, the price of energy has increased and the current in the north is paid by the Government, that is, it is working contrary to the interests of citizens.

And we pay the huge bills for the expenses in the north, we don't take measures for the part that billed energy in that part, and this way, they cut the subvention on the other side, they raise the price, and all these are measures contrary to the interests of the citizens, and the country, and I honestly don't know what these” are all saying.

By contrast, on April 1st of this year citizens in Kosovo will pay electricity bills for 15 percent more expensive.

This decision was made in March by the Electricity Regulatory Office.